Wall Street suffers sharp losses on the final day of October. All three major benchmark indexes score hefty gains for the month, with the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite up 11% from the end of September.

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U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Monday, but all three major benchmark indexes finished with strong gains for the month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 276.10 points, or 2.3%, to end at 11,955.01, marking its first loss in four sessions.